Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FOR A VOLUME OF ESSAYS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON


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First Line: Here, with little variation
Last Line: Take it -- with my best good wishes!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Essays


(TO GEORGE SAINTSBURY)

HERE, with little variation,
Comes another 'cold collation.'

Naught, indeed, the taste to tickle --
Coan lees, or roes in pickle;
No comparison between a
Severn lamprey and muraena;
Nothing to derange the peptics
Of the Scholars or the sceptics --
Only useful antiseptics!

Naught for Bacchus, naught for Venus --
Nothing that Nasidienus
Howsoever at a loss for
Novelty, could find a sauce for;
Naught, in truth, to please the palate
Save the dressing of the sallet!

If you care for such-like dishes,
Take it -- with my best good wishes!





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